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Lance Ulanoff

The Touch Bar is back, sort of...and it looks terrible

Flexbar.

Does anyone miss the MacBook Pro Touch Bar so desperately that they need it back in almost any form? The answer would be yes if you're talking to Eniac, a small company that's just reinvented the not-quite-iconic Touch Bar as a Flexbar that can be used with the Mac, iPad, Android, and even your Windows PC.

Apple Introduced the Touch Bar on MacBook Pros in 2016. It was as close as a MacBook would ever come to having a touchscreen display. In practice, you often touched the Touch Bar, which sat embedded along the keyboard's top edge, while looking at the touch-averse MacBook Pro screen. The Touch Bar was almost magically contextual, switching up display features depending on the app. The loss of function buttons and Power/TouchID button annoyed many hardcore MacBook Pro users, though. And Apple, perhaps sensing it had gone too far, killed the Touch Bar when it introduced its first Apple Silicon MacBook Pro laptops in 2022.

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